{"id":11974,"date":"2011-07-19T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11974"},"modified":"2011-07-18T01:17:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T06:17:41","slug":"female-afghan-student-pilots-begin-us-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/female-afghan-student-pilots-begin-us-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Afghan Student Pilots Begin US Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press notes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2011\/07\/ap-afghan-women-pilots-arrive-us-071311\/\">beginning of training for four Afghan women<\/a> who will ultimately be pilots in the Afghan Air Force.\u00a0 They are undergoing language training this year and will begin their pilot training next year.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies brought attention to the fact Afghanistan isn&#8217;t like it used to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For women in Afghanistan, said Afghan Air Force 2nd Lt. Masooma Hussaini, it\u2019s not like \u201cit was in Taliban times.\u201d Her sisters are in school, women work in offices and, by next year, Hussaini and three other young women could be among their country\u2019s first females piloting military helicopters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes some men in Afghanistan may not be ready for the change.\u00a0 As the US begins its withdrawal, it will be interesting to see what becomes of the fledgling Afghan Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press notes the beginning of training for four Afghan women who will ultimately be pilots in the Afghan Air Force.\u00a0 They are undergoing language training this year and will begin their pilot training next year. The ladies brought attention to the fact Afghanistan isn&#8217;t like it used to be: For women in Afghanistan, said Afghan Air Force 2nd [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,134,13,1962,2,32],"class_list":["post-11974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-masooma-hussaini","tag-military","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}